Qualification
  • PhD (April, 2008) in Computer Science, School of Computing and Technology, University of Sunderland.
    Thesis title: Triangulated formulaic measurement and subjective impression in automatic summarisation.
  • MSc (Oct, 2002) in Electronic Commerce, School of Computing and Technology, University of Sunderland.
  • BSc (Jun, 1985) in Applied Mathematics, Ming Chun University Taiwan.
    		•
    Publications
  • Liang, S.F., Stevens, R. and Rector, A. OntoVerbal-M: a Multilingual Verbaliser for SNOMED CT. Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on the Multilingual Semantic Web (MSW 2011) in conjunction with the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2011), pages 13–24, Bonn, Germany.
  • Liang, S.F., Scott, D., Stevens, R. and Rector, A. (2011) Unlocking Medical Ontologies for Non-Ontology Experts. Proceedings of the 2011 Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing, ACL-HLT 2011, pages 174–181, Portland, Oregon, USA.
  • Liang, S.F., Stevens, R., Scott, D. and Rector, A. (2011) Automatic Verbalisation of SNOMED Classes Using OntoVerbal. Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2011, LNAI 6747, pages 338–342, July2-6, Bled, Slovenia.
  • Liang, S.F., Smart, P. and Shadbolt, N. (2009). Using Windmill Expansion for Document Retrieval. The Open Information Systems Journal, 3, 1-8.
  • Smart, P.R., Russell, A., Liang, S.F., Shadbolt, N.R., Booth, C., Briscombe, N. and Rankin, A. (2009) Using Semantic Technologies to Improve Information Exploitation in Military and Civilian Application Contexts. Proceedings of Knowledge Systems for Coalition Operations Conference.
  • Liang, S.F. (2009) An Empirical Study of Automatic Summarisation. Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr.Müller Aktiengesellschaft & Co. KG. ISBN: 978-3-639-15000-1.
  • Booth, C., Smart, P. R., Liang, S. F. and Rankin, A. (2007) SEMIOTIKS: Semantically-Enhanced Information Extraction for Improved Knowledge Superiority. DIF DTC Annual Conference 2007, 3-4 September, Cardiff, Wales, UK.
  • Liang, S.F., Devlin, S. and Tait, J. (2007). Investigating Sentence Weighting Components for Automatic Summarisation. Information Processing & Management, 43(1), 146-153.
  • Liang, S.F., Devlin, S. and Tait, J. (2006) Evaluating Web Search Result Summaries. The 28th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR06, 96-106.
  • Liang, S.F., Devlin, S. and Tait J. (2005) Using query term order for result summarisation. Proceedings of the 28th Annual International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR05, 629-630.
  • Liang, S.F., Devlin, S. and Tait, J. (2004) Feature Selection for Summarising: The Sunderland DUC 2004 Experience. Document Understanding Conference 2004, Boston USA.
  • Liang, S.F., Devlin, S. and Tait, J. (2004) Can automatic abstracting improve on current extracting techniques in aiding users to judge the relevance of pages in search engine results. 7th Computational Linguistics UK, 154-159.